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Pulmonary function test - ANSWER ✔✔Tests lung volume, capacity,
rate of flow, and how well gas exchage is occuring
Obstructive - ANSWER ✔✔Increased resistance to airflow
Something in the aveollar tree is obstructed
Restrictive - ANSWER ✔✔Reduced expansion of lung tissue
Decreased lung capacity
,Compliance - ANSWER ✔✔Flexibility of the lungs
Good= breathing in means lungs fully expand
Bad= breathing in lungs dont expand and is hard to breathe
Pleural Space - ANSWER ✔✔Area between membrane linings
Fluids get into space causes lung to not be able to expand
hypoxemia - ANSWER ✔✔Lack of oxygen to the bloodstream
Hypoxia - ANSWER ✔✔lack of oxygen to tissues
Hypercapnia - ANSWER ✔✔excessive carbon dioxide in the blood
Normal:35-45 of CO2
Chronic Hypercapnia - ANSWER ✔✔• Elevated CO2 no longer
serves as primary stimulus for ventilation
• Low oxygen drives ventilation (hypoxic drive)
Chronic hypoxia - ANSWER ✔✔Ideal Co2: 90-100
, Dramatic drop in hemoglobin
Stimulates increased ventilation
Pulmonary Diseases S/S - ANSWER ✔✔Cyanosis
Tripoding
Use of accessory muscles
Rate, rhythm, depth of breathing
Adventitious breath sounds (wheezing, stridor)
Auscultation
Percussion
Risk Factors for Pulmonary Diseases - ANSWER ✔✔Smoking!!!!
Cocaine
Genetics
Environmental/occupational exposure
Pulmonary Disease Diagnostics - ANSWER ✔✔Chest xray
Ct scan
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